Keerthi Kiran Bandru

Research Associate

Keerthi Kiran Bandru obtained his PhD in 2016 at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany on the topic of the role of citizen complaints in environmental regulation in India. He worked for four years at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Centre for Environmental Education (CEE) on the topics of sustainable agriculture, biological management of soil resources, environmental curriculum for the school, protection of national parks and wildlife. In 2015, he joined the Accompanying Research to Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security as responsible researcher for India case. His interests include sustainable land use and responsible governance of land, institutional economics, natural resource management, theory of change in development research, deliberative democracy and environmental governance.